Behind The Seventh Veil

Born in Tasmania, the Australian pianist Eileen Joyce was destined for the great concert halls of the world and a career that established her at the international pinnacle of twentieth-century pianism. In-depth essays in this book examine her studies in Germany, her appearances as a glamorous concert artist, her starring roles on film, her fascination with the harpsichord and embrace of early music, and her many acclaimed recordings. With listings of Joyce’s concerto and solo recital repertoire and the most complete discography to date, this is an informative new account of the extraordinary career of a consummate artist.

Behind the Seventh Veil is the third in the Thomas Sebastian Scott Espionage Mystery series: #1 Flame--Artists, Hackers, Lovers, and Spies (2014); #2 The Lady is Bugged (2015). His friends feared him lost in the coup,But from Istanbul to Austria he flew.Please tell me more,Why the detour?A fraulein, methinks,to pursue?A long-lost erotic film discovered in Pittsburgh leading to the search for a descendent of Emperor Franz Josef of Austria, the disappearance of a rogue NSA cyber-spy in Turkey, a West Virginia artist witnessing a ritual Japanese suicide in New York, the assassination of a top general in Iran, a secret revealed from a youthful dalliance by a beloved priest, an airport bomb blast in Istanbul leading to incarceration in an ancient sanatorium, and a surprising conclusion involving an undercover British agent, an eager American intelligence analyst, and a return to the Austrian village of St. Wolfgang by Thomas Sebastian Scott.

Written by Michael Legat, who enjoyed a successful career as publisher, novelist and tutor/lecturer in Creative Writing, these Guides contain both basic information and thought provoking commentary on the steps needed to succeed as a writer.

Why, when we are desperately in love, do we endlessly block union with our love object? Why do we often destroy what we love most? Why do we search out the impossible object? Is it that we desire things because they are unavailable, and therefore, to keep desire alive, we need to prevent its fulfillment? Renata Salecl explores the distributing and complex relationships between love and hate, violence and admiration, libidinal and destructive drives, through an investigation of phenomenon as diverse as the novels The Age of Innocence and The Remains of the Day, classic Hollywood melodramas, the Sirens’ song, Ceaușescu's Rumania and the Russian performance artist Oleg Kulik, who acts like a dog and bites his audience. (Per)Versions of Love and Hate presents a unique and timely intervention in contemporary debates by questioning the legitimacy of the calls for tolerance and respect by multiculturalism and exploring practices such as body-mutilation as symptoms of the radical change that has affected subjectivity in contemporary society.